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tion, as-motion at all is necessary (2:). If thiswere to be performed by the agency of finite

immaterial

(z) A short view ef this various, intricate, busy scenewe may have from Borelli, part. 2. de mot. animal, prof-jo. after having mentioned two other sorts of motionin the blood, he adds, Tertius ejl ille, quo a corde pi faortam its refiquas arterias ad omnes carports fortes trans-fertur diffinnditurque infra cantium, vifcerum iff glandu -larum spongiosam fitbjiantiam ; iff hinc a subtiliffims its'tiarum canaliculis exugitur , congregaturque in venas majo'res , non secus ac Jiumina ex sontibus et aquarum rivulisjits torrentibus in decursu receptis, augentur ; qua omnes ve-na, in mum grandem truncum cava dejinentes, tandemad cor dis dextrum ventriculum exonerentur, et hinc per pul-monarem arteriam moles universa sanguinis, in ipjis pul-monibus diffiufa , iterum recolligitur a vend pulmonarid,reduciturque ad cordis smijlrum ventriculum , ut iterumintra aortam effiundatur, This is not so much one, aStwo circulations; the blood being twice thrown out oUand twice returning to the heart, before the full periodis completed. It takes a long journey, it seems, to re-cruit all the parts of the body, and another shorter jour-ney to make itself fit for that purpose. The heart >sthe common office and rendezvous, whence it sets out, andwhither it returns. What pains (speaking in our man-ner) doth this work cost? Infinite power and wisdom,no doubt, might have made it more compendious; sucha cause is fertile in resources, being the master of allpossibilities: but art and means are designedly multiplied,that we might not take it for the effect of chance. Andagain, in some cafes the method itself is different, that